Exams, admissions, results and career trends, written by the CareerBox editorial team.
After three rounds of centralised counselling, Gujarat’s nursing and allied-health admission committee has filled 20,855 of 53,206 seats in GNM, ANM, B.Sc. Nursing, physiotherapy and other courses. Every government seat is taken; the 32,351 vacancies are all in self-financed institutes.
Gujarat Technological University’s innovation centre is inviting student start-ups from the 2025-26 graduating batch to compete for convocation gold medals. A start-up needs DPIIT recognition, a registered legal entity and at least ₹3 lakh in turnover (₹2 lakh of value for a social venture).
The High Court of Gujarat has published its select list for contractual Legal Assistant posts: 60 candidates for 65 advertised vacancies, chosen from 103 who cleared the written test. Total scores ran from 116.25 down to 76 out of 150. Final-year law students on the list must show they passed with 55%.
The National Testing Agency has opened applications for UGC-NET December 2026 in 87 subjects. The form and fee close at 11:50 pm on 28 October, a ₹500 late-fee window runs to 31 October, corrections are on 2 to 4 November, and after NTA’s 16 October corrigendum the computer-based test is on 14 to 18 December and 21 December.
Applications for the Joint CSIR-UGC NET December 2026 are open until 11:50 pm on 5 November, with a late-fee window to 9 November. The exam is on 19, 22 and 27 December. The bulletin says CSIR and the Department of Biotechnology will award fellowships through the renamed Life Sciences and Bio-Technology paper.
Karnataka’s school examination board has published tentative timetables for both 2027 attempts. Second PUC Exam 1 runs from 27 February to 17 March and SSLC Exam 1 from 22 March to 5 April. The second attempts follow in May. Objections can be emailed until 22 October.
A combined calendar from the Medical Counselling Committee sets the dates by which states must run their 50% quota MD/MS rounds. State round 1 runs from 21 October to 2 November, round 2 from 14 to 23 November and round 3 from 4 to 12 December. Every stray round must be joined by 31 December.
The National Medical Commission’s rating board is inviting online applications to start new MBBS colleges and to raise intake at existing ones from the 2027-28 academic year. The portal opened on 8 October. Hospitals must be tied to one college only, a dedicated corpus fund is now required, and private colleges must post an electronic bank guarantee.
NTA is taking applications from 9 to 31 October for the SWAYAM July 2026 semester exams, covering 662 courses. The fee can be paid until 1 November, corrections are on 2 to 3 November, and the computer-based exams run from 8 to 12 December.
NTA has opened a one-time correction window, from 9 to 11 October (till 11:50 pm), for the Rashtriya Indian Military College Entrance Examination 2026. Date of birth, gender, category, names and exam city can be changed. Mobile number, email, address and photograph cannot.
Gujarat’s postgraduate medical admission committee is taking registrations for 2026-27 MD, MS and diploma seats in government and private colleges. The ₹28,000 PIN must be bought by 3 pm on 8 October, the form closes at 5 pm that day, and help-centre verification ends at 4 pm on 9 October.
Gujarat’s UG medical admission committee has opened round-3 choice filling for MBBS and BDS from 6 to 10 October, on a revised merit list of 15,814 names. It warns that a candidate who takes a round-3 seat and does not report forfeits ₹10,000 and is barred from the final round.
Gujarat Technological University is inviting PhD holders in engineering, technology and management to apply for full-time post-doctoral fellowships under AICTE’s scheme. The fellowship pays ₹65,000 a month plus ₹50,000 a year for research costs, for up to two years.
The Gujarat State Open School has extended registration for its November to December 2026 Class 10 and Class 12 general-stream exams to midnight on 15 October. Papers run from 30 November to 9 December, and girls and candidates with disabilities pay no exam fee.
The state’s scholarship portal has reopened post-matric applications for Scheduled Tribe students who missed the 2025-26 round, from 1 to 20 October, and for Scheduled Caste students for 2026-27 until 31 October. The ST window for 2026-27 runs to 30 November.
The Staff Selection Commission has set proposed computer-based exam dates for three recruitments: Junior Engineer Paper I on 2 to 6 November, Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police and CAPFs on 20 to 28 November, and CHSL Tier I from 30 November to 31 December. CHSL fees can be paid until 11 pm on 8 October.
NBEMS has opened a selective edit window from 3 to 19 October for FMGE applicants whose photograph, signature or thumb impression was rejected. Missing documents must be fixed by 21 October. The test is on 31 October, in the first of three FMGE sessions a year.
The Medical Counselling Committee has published a tentative schedule for MD, MS and DNB counselling for the 50% all-India quota and deemed and central universities. Round 1 registration runs from 12 October to noon on 21 October, with the result on 24 October. Four rounds end with a stray round on 24 December.
The Ministry of Education has given students another month to apply for the National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship on the National Scholarship Portal. Applications now close on 31 October, school verification is due by 15 November and district verification by 30 November.
NCERT has opened its 2026-27 online diploma in Teaching of Science at Middle Stage (Grades 6 to 8) on the NCERTX platform. The one-time fee is ₹2,000, enrolment closes on 12 November, and the 40-module course runs from 16 November to August 2027.
The University of Colorado Denver says it has received a letter of intent from the UGC to set up a degree-granting campus in Hyderabad. It would be the first American public university allowed to do so in India. Business, computing, engineering and analytics are planned, with the first students expected in August 2027.
The Joint Implementation Committee report for JEE Advanced 2026, prepared by IIT Roorkee, shows 56,880 qualifiers out of 1,79,694 who sat both papers. Women’s qualification rate rose to 23.4% of registrants, and they took 20.22% of the 18,861 IIT seats allotted.
Gujarat’s professional courses admission committee has opened an offline vacant round for degree and diploma pharmacy seats in government and grant-in-aid colleges. Registration runs from 30 September to 2 October, the merit list comes on 5 October and counselling is on 7 October in Ahmedabad.
Gujarat’s UG medical admission committee has given students holding a round-1 or round-2 MBBS/BDS seat until 12 noon on 3 October to cancel in person at their help centre. The state’s round 3 runs inside a national window that closes on 9 October, with joining by 14 October.
